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How to Use PowerShell Remoting for Automated Server Management on Windows Server 2012 R2 — Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use PowerShell Remoting for Automated Server Management on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Use PowerShell Remoting for Automated Server Management on Windows Server 2012 R2 PowerShell Remoting enables you to execute commands and scripts on remote Windows servers over WinRM, the Windows implementation of the WS-Management protocol. This capability transforms PowerShell from a local automation tool into a distributed management platform, allowing a single administrator or […]

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How to Install Netdata on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Netdata on FreeBSD 13

Introduction This guide explains how to Install Netdata on FreeBSD 13 on FreeBSD 13. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for fine-grained privilege separation. […]

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How to Set Up a RADIUS Server with NPS on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a RADIUS Server with NPS on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up a RADIUS Server with NPS on Windows Server 2012 R2 RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) is the industry-standard AAA protocol — Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting — used by virtually all network access equipment including wireless access points, VPN concentrators, 802.1X network switches, and dial-up servers. Windows Server 2012 R2’s Network […]

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FreeBSD 13 — opus-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — opus-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: vorbis-tools, opus-tools — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2014-9638 CVE-2014-9639 CVE-2015-6749 Upstream summary: Paris Zoumpouloglou reports: I discovered an integer overflow issue in oggenc, related to the number of channels in […]

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Debian 11 — libgtop2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libgtop2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-0235 Upstream summary: Stack-based buffer overflow in the glibtop_get_proc_map_s function in libgtop before 2.14.6 (libgtop2) allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute […]

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Debian 11 — android-platform-frameworks-native — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — android-platform-frameworks-native — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3875 CVE-2015-6602 CVE-2015-6609 Upstream summary: libutils in Android before 5.1.1 LMY48T allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a […]

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How to Configure WSUS on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure WSUS on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 WSUS Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) allows administrators to centrally manage the distribution of updates released through Microsoft Update to computers in a network. Instead of each computer individually downloading updates from Microsoft, they download from the WSUS server, saving bandwidth and enabling administrators to approve, decline, and […]

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Debian 11 — libslirp — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libslirp — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-10756 CVE-2020-1983 CVE-2020-29129 CVE-2020-29130 CVE-2020-7039 CVE-2020-7211 CVE-2020-8608 CVE-2021-3592  +3 more Upstream summary: An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in the SLiRP networking implementation of the QEMU emulator. This […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libpano13 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libpano13 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6163-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-20307 CVE-2021-33293 Upstream summary: It was discovered that pano13 did not properly validate the prefix provided for PTcrop's output. An attacker could use this issue to cause […]

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Arch Linux — tor — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — tor — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201712-10 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8823 CVE-2017-8822 CVE-2017-8820 CVE-2017-8819 CVE-2021-34550 CVE-2021-34549 CVE-2021-34548 CVE-2017-0377  +2 more Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 0.3.1.8-1. Fixed in: 0.3.1.9-1. Group: AVG-539. Table of contents […]

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